HAMILTON DISCOOOORSE!!! WOOOOOOOO

Love your stuff

youre new but i see you! some good takes.

for starters let me get sentimental and sincere. as a child with a parent from the Caribbean i 100% saw myself in hamilton as a teen.(wrote my way out meant a lot to me) I related to the character extremely hard being a black loudmouthed demsoc at the time. no one believed in me and i saw hamilton as an inspiration. I was also determined to burn my name into the face of the world. this musical has heart and come from an immigrant perspective (not a black one mind you). and while people in this comment section deride the musical for being “for white people” the people who love the musical the deepest, who make fan art and analyze every song tend to be young queer and black people, and people of color. its good. its meaningful. but its liberal and launders the reputations of evil people. at the end of the day the musical is strangled buy it inablility to meaningfully critique its subjects.

He was the grandson of wealthy merchants on one side and of Scottish nobility on the other

So all those thing you laid out yes but I was referring specificity to when jonh adams calls him “a creole bastard” and yes there were always rumors he had a lil black in him but those were mostly insults to ruin his reputation.

Hamilton has stuff like this all over and is pretty tightly woven, but there are some dropped threads where you would expect some kind of callback and we just don’t get any. The reason? There were several more songs about opposition to slavery that were dropped because they didn’t play well in the test showings.

do not site the deep magic to me witch i was there when it was written if many of the scrapped songs were left in the musical would have been very different and thematically constant. It would have been much improved I agree but it wasn’t so we have to judge the final product as is. and the musical doesn’t center black voices, at no point do we hear a black characters perspective, they are only background characters and political tools. and yes they take a lot of time to say slavery bad but they dont show it. especially since black people (and some queer people) played a huge part of the revolutionary war. its hallow, sweeps the seriousness of the subject under the rug with a quick wave. also sooooo many songs from the second half of the show should have been cut in favor of what did get cut, test audiences be damned.

oh noo you deleted it! you want me to delete this one?

luckily i got in to the school for poetry. and then i really got into stagecraft and building things… until they cut our funding, and then they just stopped having cool sets. i was a behind the scenes kid. i did costuming, and stage makeup too.

i wasnt i swear! i had standards!

i somehow knew it was gonna be that image. This is one of those things that both fascists and communists cringe at, but for opposite reasons

Hamilton was 8 years ago I have a bachelors degree now

i was germany my first year!! I did my best to block the globlal south from having autonomy. we won an award. I successfully argued that poor countries had too much corruption to manage their own money. but then fucking cost rica and Iran pulled the imperialism victim card and fucked me. next year I was Bolivia and let me tell you i made America cry… and then france made me cry. oh model un. I lost my virginity and got high for the first time on those trips, I also found my fiance!! good times.

DO YOU KNOW WHO THE FUCK I AM? yeah thats a good one, that also shouldn’t have been cut from the musical. And yeah everyone being too horny to do politics is something the show makes fun of a lot of characters for, they were all very horny. its half of hamiltons downfall

I love the Decemberists

gang

thanks! i know too much Hamilton info for a lifetime. I was in deep.